If you closely follow Apple’s inner workings (and since you’re here, I’m guessing you do), you know Phil Schiller has always been known for his unrelenting and fierce protectiveness of Apple and the App Store.
This is why perhaps the most surprising aspect of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’s recent scathing order to Apple in the Epic Games case was how Schiller emerged as the uncompromising good cop within the circular walls of Apple Park.
But here’s the thing: outwardly, Schiller is still
The countdown to WWDC is winding down , as Apple’s big software unveilings are just weeks away. macOS 16 will introduce a new California-inspired name, of course, alongside a variety of feature upgrades. Here are four new Mac features expected to be announced next month.
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After my last WiFi-enabled smart scale broke and refused to connect to the Internet anymore, I sought something simpler and cheaper to replace it. The old scale had all sorts of fancy service integrations that I never used. I just wanted something that would track my weight and report the measurements to the Health app on my iPhone.
The is what I landed on and I’m very happy with it — and it’s pretty cheap too. Here’s how it works …
Firstly, the scale works completely
Microsoft has on its YouTube channel that touts the speed of its top Copilot + PCs. Curiously though, these “top PCs” are compared against Apple’s consumer-targeted MacBook Air…from over a year ago.
The ongoing rivalry between Microsoft and Apple has always been good for entertaining ads, like the “ I’m a Mac/I’m a PC ” campaign.
Microsoft’s for its Copilot + PCs is similarly providing a lot of laughs, though for different reasons.
The short video offers
We are less than a month away from WWDC 2025, where Apple is set to announce a redesigned and less glitchy iOS 19 alongside what it’s been cooking over the past year for its other operating systems.
While rumors abound regarding what’s to come to iOS 19, there’s one feature I hope to see make its way into the new system. Sadly, it’s probably not going to happen.
Apple HDR video playback support in the iPhone 8 and iPhone X in
Last week, Epic Games announced that it had submitted Fortnite to the App Store in the United States. The move followed an injunction in which a federal judge said Apple couldn’t charge a 27% commission on out-of-app purchases initiated through in-app links.
In a new statement today, however, Epic says that Apple has “blocked” this submission…
In a posted on social media, Epic Games said:
“Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release to the US App
The Murderbot Diaries is a by Martha Wells. Apple has now adapted the series for television, with premiering today with the first two episodes on . New episodes roll out weekly.
The sci-fi comedy features Alexander Skarsgard as an awkward human-reclusive SecUnit robot. It is sent on assignments by a group of research scientists, protecting them from space worms and other dangers, while all it really wants to do it is relax in a corner and watch soap operas on its helmet TV.
Obviously, Apple is hoping to
Today, Apple that veteran actor Michael J. Fox will appear in a guest role in Season 3 of Apple TV+’s acclaimed comedy series Shrinking.
The news marks Fox’s first on-camera performance since his “ ” in 2020, due to complications from Parkinson’s disease, a condition he was diagnosed with in 1991 while filming Doc Hollywood .
While there are no details on Fox’s character as of yet, his casting is particularly fitting, given that the show
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says Apple is keeping Fortnite’s return to the App Store in limbo, having “neither accepted nor rejected” the latest submission for review.
The ongoing silence now threatens to delay Fortnite’s next major update, planned for this Friday.
The ink wasn’t even dry yet on Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ order for Apple to quit it and do what it was told in the original 2021 injunction , when Epic Games confirmed it would submit Fortnite for Apple’s approval